Space Station Falling to Earth !!!

The Space Station appears to be falling into the earth's atmosphere and is expected to land in the Pacific Ocean! Well, perhaps not immediately, but a Russian space official stated Wednesday that when they are finished with the behemoth International Space Station, it will be placed in a decaying orbit with plans to plunge it into the Pacific Ocean.

This isn't the first time a large space station has come to death grips with gravity. Skylab, America's first space station, fell from orbit in 1979 after six years in space, and following that, Russia sank its Mir space station in the Pacific in 2001 after 15 years in operation (it missed its target and landed in Australia).

This plan has been in the works for a long time, and this is one likely step to avoid the station becoming a very dangerous piece of space junk. The original plan was to bring it down safely into the ocean as early as 2015, however, the U.S. recently extended its useful life until at least the year 2020, and there's been talk of possibly keeping it going even longer.

Consisting of more than a dozen modules built by the U.S., Japan, Russia, Canada, and the European Space Agency, the International Space Station, clearly the biggest orbiting outpost ever built, can actually be seen from the Earth with the naked eye. It's has grown large enough to "comfortably" support up to six residents. (They should start a commune!)

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